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Posted on: Funny Business 4 -- Farewell, Xiao Zhao
August 20, 2009 at 4:35 AMHi tvan
大陆国企采用的好像是有中国特色的马克思主义式准国际会计制度和准则。最大的特点就是"灵活性"。别当真啊。
Posted on: Funny Business 4 -- Farewell, Xiao Zhao
August 19, 2009 at 12:46 PM那样的话，新式激光枪的威力会比旧式的还要大。这回老王肯定死定了！
Posted on: Funny Business 4 -- Farewell, Xiao Zhao
August 19, 2009 at 12:24 PMHi xiaophil 麒麟人的激光枪不是失灵了吗？
Posted on: Funny Business 4 -- Farewell, Xiao Zhao
August 19, 2009 at 9:02 AM糟糕，我误会了。这次不是我们伟大的共产党惹的人祸，而是台风引起的天灾！我衷心向中国国家领导们道个歉！
子曰，过则勿惮改，子又曰，过而不改，是谓过矣。
Posted on: Funny Business 4 -- Farewell, Xiao Zhao
August 19, 2009 at 6:21 AM今天我这里（中国东北地区）网速又慢得无法忍受，怎么也听不到课程的声音，而且发帖子已经很不容易了。我觉得奇怪的是，访问国内的网站并没有太大的问题。国家领导们啊，你们妨碍老外学中文那么高兴吗？听说你们为了推广汉语教学已经在海外建立了将近三百所的《孔子学院》。如果孔子活在今天，看到你们的工作作风，他会怎么说？
子曰，知者不惑，仁者不忧，勇者不惧
Posted on: Welfare Lottery
August 18, 2009 at 7:03 AMHi kimiik
六害彩 = 害自己、害家人、害朋友、害人民、害社会、害国家。
六害彩 is a sarcastic name for 六合彩. As you know, 彩票 causes a lot of serious problems in the PRC.
As for 彩票, the character 彩 means "prize", and this usage has a long history. 彩票 really makes sense.
骰子 (tou2zi) was originally written as "投子" (tou2zi) because you throw (投) it. Later, "投" was replaced by "骰". As you know, most dices were made of 骨 (bone) in the past. They call a dice "色子" (shai3zi) since it has colored dots on the surface. I hear that "one" and "four" on a Chinese dice are red colored. In Japan, only "one" is red colored. "shai3" is the colloquial sound of 色 (se4), which is mainly used in Bejing dialect.
Posted on: Qipao Dresses and Marathons in China
August 18, 2009 at 2:01 AMHi guys in the PRC
Internet speed has been extremely slow here in my city in the PRC in the past few days, especially for the sites in the USA, Chinesepod included. It's almost impossible to visit Chinesepot in the evening. Is it only me?
Posted on: Karaoke
August 18, 2009 at 12:59 AMHi salvador
等你 = wait for you
等着(or 著)你 = be waiting for you
着/著 (zhe) is a marker that indicates a kind of "present progressive tense".
Posted on: What's Your Job?
August 18, 2009 at 12:35 AMHi carlos
"Marketing" is translated as "市场营销" (shi4chang3ying2xiao1) in Chinese. "I'm in marketing" should be "我是搞(gao3)市场营销的" or "我是个市场营销员(or 市场营销师)". Marketing manager is "市场营销经理".
Posted on: It's My Birthday!
August 20, 2009 at 6:21 AMHi ncmuck
It seems to be a little too late, but let me say "祝你生日快乐" (zhu4ni2 sheng1ri4 kuai4le4, Happy Birthday to You). I also had "a happy birthday" when I was young, but not anymore now at this age. A Japanese saying goes like this, "New Year's Day is a milestone on the road to the next world." The same is very true for a birthday, hehe.